Worthington George Smith

Worthington George Smith Linnean Society of London FLS Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland FRAI (25 March 1835 – 27 October 1917) was an English illustrator, archaeologist, plant pathologist, Mycology mycologist, and Local history local historian. He was the president of the British Mycological Society for a one-year term from 1904 to 1905. Smith was awarded a Veitch Memorial Medal in 1907. Quotes The Marasmius oreades fairy-ring Champignon (certainly one of the most exquisitely delicious of all our fungi) is generally neglected, or regarded with great suspicion. Under the name of 'champillion,' however, it is well known to the weavers and labouring men of the East London east of London, who may be seen gathering it in considerable numbers any autumn day amongst the short grass of Victoria Park, Tower Hamlets Victoria Park. Mushrooms and toadstools: how to distinguish easily the differences between edible and poisonous fungi. With 2 large sheets containing figures of 29 edible and 31 poisonous species London Robert Hardwicke 1867 https://books.google.com/books?id=yq50gqAd_FIC&pg=PA15 15 (64 pages) When potatoes are destroyed by parasitic Fungus fungi in the autumn, it does not always happen that the parasite is the dreaded putrefactive fungus of the murrain, named Phytophthora infestans Peronospora infestans Camille Montagne Mont. Another highly destructive fungus, named Fusisporium solani Fusisporium Solani, Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius Mart., is sometimes equally damaging to potatoes with the Peronospora itself. The name Fusisporium refers to the spindle-shaped crescent form of the spores,—fusus a spindle ; Solani of course, refers to the genus Solanum to which the potato belongs. Diseases of Field and Garden Crops: Chiefly Such as are Caused by Fungi Macmillan's School Class Books Macmillan & Company 1884 https://books.google.cm/books?id=4tQ5AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA30 30 (353 pages; text at archive.org) The mere barbarians, the chippers of rude weapons and tools of stone, who lived in North Britain at the time of the Roman conquest, — the men who had been driven north, ages before the Roman occupation, by Celts Kelts from the mainland of Europe, are quite recent as compared with the far-off time when primeval savages lived in what is now Britain. The barbarians who preceded the ancient civilisations of Ancient Rome Rome, Assyria, and Ancient Egypt Egypt are modern as compared with the remote antiquity of the savages whose bones, weapons, and tools are here described and sketched. Man, the Primeval Savage: His Haunts and Relics from the Hill-tops of Bedfordshire to Blackwall 1894 London Edward Stanford 1 (375 pages; text at archive.org) The first stage coach passed through Dunstable on Monday, April 12th, 1742. ...Dunstable Downs Chalk Hill, to the north of Dunstable, presented great difficulties for coaches, seven or eight horses were required to take the coach from Brewer's Hill Road to the top of the hill. Dunstable: Its History and Surroundings Volume 3 of The Homeland Library Bedfordshire County Library 1980 9780901051875 112 (192 pages; 1st edition published in 1904, Homeland Association; 1st part of quote last part of quote) Quotes about Worthington George Smith Mr. Worthington Smith has devoted himself for many years to a study of the localities near London where implements have been found, and has described the various Paleolithic palæolithic floors with great minuteness, and illustrated them with great artistic skill. In this book he brings all his previous discoveries together, and groups them round his last work at Caddington, near Dunstable, on the borders of Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire. He has presented to us a monograph on palæolithic camping-places, rather than a general treatise on Man, the Primeval Savage. William Boyd Dawkins, 27 December 1894 review of Man—the Primeval Savage Nature 51 1313 194–195 https://www.nature.com/articles/051194a0 Worthington Smith was an important member of the group of archaeologists whose work established Palaeoarchaeology Palaeolithic Archaeology as a discipline in Britain. He observed, meticulously recorded and published traces of some of the best Acheulean Acheulian sites ever to come to light in England. While his overview of the Paleolithic Palaeolithic period has inevitably not stood the test of time, his publications remain of great value for the factual information they contain, and for his fine illustrations. Most of his artefact collections also survive, well-documented in spite of the loss of many of his written notes, and these too are important. Derek Roe Derek A. Roe, 2009 Chapter 8. Worthington George Smith (1835–1917) Great Prehistorians: 150 Years of Palaeolithic Research, 1859–2009 Special Volume 30 of Lithics: The Journal of the Lithic Studies Society 85–95 Lithic Studies Society London http://journal.lithics.org/wp-content/uploads/lithics_30_2009_08_Roe.pdf (edited by Robert Hosfield, Francis Wenban-Smith, & Matthew Pope) External links Mr Worthington George Smith worldwar1luton.com https://www.worldwar1luton.com/individual/mr-worthington-george-smith Category:1835 births Category:1917 deaths Category:Archaeologists from England Category:Botanists from England Category:Illustrators from England Category:Non-fiction authors from England Category:Science authors